Roads (Norfolk) Act 1695

IV. Justices or Quarter Sessions to appoint Receiver or Collector of Toll.

Tolls.; Place for collecting the same.; Turnpike to be set up.; Persons refusing to pay, Collector to distrain for same and Damages.; Money paid to Surveyor.

And for defraying of the Charges in and about the Reparations to bee done in the places aforesaid Bee itt further enacted That the said Justices or the Quarter Sessions aforesaid shall and may choose and appoint One or more fitt person or persons to bee Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors of such Summe or Summes of Money in the name of Toll or Custome to be paid for all such Horses Carts Coaches Waggons Droves and Gangs of Cattell as in tyme to come shall passe bee lead or droven in or through the said [X1 Way] as are hereafter in this Act lymitted (that is to say) For every Horse One Penny For every Stage or Hackney Coach Six pence For every other Coach Chariott or Calash Six pence For every Waggon One shilling For every [X1 Cart] Six pence For every Score of Oxen or Neat Cattell Six pence and soe for every greater or lesser Number proportionably And that from and after the passing of this Act all and every person and persons who shall travell with Horse Coach Cart or Waggon or shall lead or drive any Oxen or other Cattell before mentioned in and through the High way aforesaid shall and are hereby required and enacted to pay unto the said Collector or Collectors Receiver or Receivers of Toll in that behalfe from tyme to tyme to bee appointed as aforesaid after the Rates aforesaid The place or places for collecting the said Toll to bee upon the said Highway in or betweene Attleborough and Wymundham aforesaid by setting upp a Turnepike or Turnepikes or otherwise as the Justices of the Peace att the next or any future Quarter Sessions to bee held for the said County after the passing of this Act shall direct and appoint And in case any person or persons upon demand made of Toll aforesaid by the Collector or Receiver in that behalfe to bee appointed shall neglect or refuse to pay the same that then itt shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Collector or Receiver appointed for the Receipt of the said Toll upon such refusall to distraine and detaine such Horse Cart Coach Chariott Calash Waggon Oxen or other Cattle before mentioned or any of them untill the said Toll shall bee satisfyed and paid according to the Tenour of this present Act together with such Damages as the party or parties soe distraineing shall sustaine in and about the makeing of the said Distresse or by the keeping thereof which said Moneys soe to bee received shall bee paid to the said Surveyors for and towards the amendment of the said ruinous places in the said High way according to the true meaning hereof and not elsewhere.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.